By Abolade Ademola In Laaga community, located around Ewu-Elepe, a suburb of Ikorodu, residents have been made to pay an estimated bill that is more than the minimum wage of the entire country, Nigeria. The steady rise in the bill is very discomforting in a country where the rate of inflation keeps rising without a…
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Senate Stops Electricity Tariff Hikes
On Tuesday, February 16, 2016, the Nigerian Senate ordered the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, to immediately suspend the February 1st, 2016 tariff hikes, which were estimated to be upwards of 40 per cent. This decision by the Nigerian lawmakers followed series of protests across the country over the decision of the Commission to increase…